Ralph the Soldier A Temperance Icon of Reform
A long sketch recalls Ralph born 1797 in Manchester who rose from a publican’s family to a soldier life and later embraced total abstinence. After severe drink-fueled relapses and near-fatal incidents, he found pardon in a Wesleyan chapel, then preached abstinence among comrades and endured persecution. He helped steer 25 000 to pledge total abstinence.
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Ralph
Steen Ag
England
Scotland
Wales
British Temperance Recorder
Amer. Temp. Union
Manchester
Edinburgh
Beaumont
Satan
Leeds
York
Queit
Hami
Temperance Work Transforms Drunkard Ralph into Advocate
The article recounts Ralphs descent into drink amid barrack life in Manchester and Clonmel. After a life of hardship including near fatal floods and stints as a groom he attends a temperance meeting, pledges sobriety, and becomes a leading teetotaler. He travels across the UK promoting abstinence, aiding thousands to take the pledge, and supporting the gospel cause.
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Ralph
British Association
17Th Lancers
Hort
United Kingdom
The Smoke of the Distillery Across Our Neighborhood
A resident laments a distillery’s smoke towering over a thriving area filled with churches, homes, and gardens. He grimly links the smokestack to crime and misery, picturing drunkards, abused wives, hungry children, and ruined lives as the distillery’s grim toll.
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Hamilton Washingtonian
Cear
Temperance paper seeks funds to avoid discontinuation
The Wasuing Tontan publisher reports nearly $600 loss for the year after expanding publication and enlisting editorial help. With only about three fourths of subscribers paid, the editor asks temperance supporters to renew at higher rates and subscribe others. The first issue of Volume III is slated for July, with June deadlines for names and payments.
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Wasuing Tontan
Friends of the Cause
Temperance Society
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Temperance
Ralph the Soldier
Clonmel
Raph
Foot
St. Paul’s
St. George’s Road
Augusta Washingtonian
the Friends OF Temperance
James McCafferty
Aveusta
Bashingtonian
Ke &E
Golunbus
Jesse Walton
NAW Book and Spapionary
U. States Hotel
Augusta
PHE
Greenville
S. C
Dunham & Bleakley
Ito-Call
WM. Haines, Jr
Garvin & Haines
Wirelesss
C. Be—H
WM. Haines
Broad Street
M. Antony
Price
Merauuic
John Millen
John L. Pine
Hernia
J. G. Chinn
Dr. Price
Eric W. Dickerson
A. B. Price
Avevsta
Paul F. Eve
Een McCoy
John B. Murphy
Broad-street
Elry
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Philotokzen
Savannah
Charleston
Columbia
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